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This volume makes available and accessible the writings of the crucial early period of Islamic mysticism during which Sufism developed as one of the world's major mystical traditions. The texts are accompanied by commentary on their historical, literary and philosophical context.Read more...

Spirituality and embodiment in Islam --
Four phases of Islamic spirituality --
The Qurʼan --
The Miʻraj : sacred cosmology and mystical orientation --
The Beloved : poetic dimensions of Islamic spirituality --
The Qurʼanic commentary attributed to Jʻafar as-Sadiq (the sixth Imam) --
Sahl at-Tustari (from the Interpretaion of the Majestic Qurʼan) --
Interpreting mystical expressions from the Treatise / Qushayri --
Her words and life in ʻAtar's Memorial of the Friends of God / Rabiʻa --
Moral psychology / Muhasibi --
The seven stations from The Book of Flashes (Kitāb al-Lumaʻ) / Sarraj --
Sarraj on Bistami's Mystical Utterances from The Book of Flashes (Kitāb al-Lumaʻ) / Bistami --
The other Bistami : The Biographies of Sulami and Qushayri / Bistami --
The Miʻraj of Bistami / Bistami --
On the Affirmation of Unity (Tawḥīd) / Junayd --
On Annihilation (Fanāʼ) / Junayd --
Iblis as Tragic Lover (The ṬāSīn of Before-Time and Ambiguity) / Hallaj --
Who are You and Who Am I? from the Book of Standings (Kitāb al-Mawāqif) / Niffari --
"If They Only Knew" from the Diwan Attributed to al-Hallaj --
Scholastic Theology (Kalām) on Unity and Justice.